New Venture!
Barkweaver Publications.
Barkweaver is a new venture in the publishing world. Barkweaver is a small publishing house being set up initially to publish the folktales of the Nagas in a series of volumes. It hopes to proceed from there to publishing and making available Naga Literature to a global audience. Barkweaver is committed to producing quality books showcasing Naga art and story-telling.
Barkweaver draws inspiration from the bark-weaving of women in the Naga villages, who harvest the bark of the nettle and weave a sturdy body-cloth out of it. It is one of the oldest ways of weaving being kept alive by a handful of women. Our efforts at storytelling in print imitate the solitary bark-weaver in whose nettle-cloths are woven, the stories of her village and her forests, the twin-cradle of our stories and culture.
Barkweaver has collaborated with Keviselie Publications to bring out the first volume of Naga Folktales Retold.